Overview

• In a prime-time Telecinco interview, Carolina Perles alleged cash was kept at home and insinuated José Luis Ábalos could have funds abroad, urging investigators to check his passport movements since leaving office.
• Perles portrayed Koldo García as a fixer who recorded conversations and asserted he acted as Santos Cerdán’s plant to keep Ábalos under control.
• Ábalos publicly denied wrongdoing, said he has not left Spain since his passport was withdrawn, and accused his ex-wife of being paid for her testimony.
• Guardia Civil’s UCO seized 34 electronic devices from Ábalos in June, and reports from his circle claim a hard drive contained recordings and documents about Perles.
• Newly recovered UCO messages show businessman Víctor de Aldama asking Ábalos about Perles’s 2021 surgery and receiving a reply that it was successful.